Skystead Ranch

Played only a little in sandbox mode, cute little game with a long way to go but has sweet aesthetics and a comfortable roadmap going forward.

After 26 hours and many changes by the Devs, I can say, it's coming along nicely. Controls take a bit to get used to, but the magical crook gives the option to toggle now, so life is easier. The Skylets are super cute, it's a challenge to meet all their - partly contradicting needs - the magical field guide is hilarious at times, pretty cheeky. Graphics are simple, yet appealing to me. Gameplay is easy to understand: farm, feed, decorate, fish - haven't tried cooking yet - upgrade, build. To then bite fingernails and decide which Skylet needs to go, so the rest has harmony and can develop to its fullest. The game still needs a bit of ironing - e.g. Skylet protest camps block entry to some areas... haven't tried the solution yet to set up a cactus flytrap, they claim to gobble up skylets.... - you can upgrade but not enter the house. It's hard to get enough stones quickly in the main building phase - these are my only gripes. So, I recommend this game wholly, it's worth the price and made by devs who really love their game and take neverending efforts to squash bugs, it shows. They even created a new Skylet to apologise for the rocky start, amazing!

At first I found the game clunky and slow. After a couple of hours, though, I started to get into it: terraforming the island, befriending skylets, accessing new zones, planting food for the skylets. Some things I had a lot of trouble figuring out how to do, but I was enjoying myself. Moving into the mines made the computer grind endlessly (or for about three minutes anyway), as did leaving it again,, which is a problem. Also I'd had issues with exiting to the main menu taking several minutes *every* time. Finally this morning I hit a point where my computer was telling me that the program wasn't responding when I was trying to exit. A one-time issue is okay, but this was very clearly a trend. I'm not willing to fight a game in order to get anything out of it. Revised after another 18 hours: I'm not sure why I'm still playing this game. I want what the game *could* be, but it's so frustrating to see what it *isn't*. So much stuff that doesn't work. So much stuff that could be handled better. And yet I've been having trouble figuring out what I want to play next, so here I am. My roommate is threatening to take away my computer so she doesn't have to hear me complain, but here I am. The whole concept just appeals to me so very much. Next day: Okay, I'm finally done. Too many game-breaking bugs and important things that have never been implemented. There are issues the devs could have fixed with really simple workarounds days into game, and they didn't. This game should never have been released in this state, and then it's like they just threw up their hands and said oh well, I guess we're screwed. They should take this game down off of the Steam store. It's really in no state for long-term play, but it's almost impossible to realize that until you've been playing for more than two hours, meaning you can't even get a refund.

It's still really rough around the edges but just has so much heart and is just so lovely to play. The narrator is HILARIOUS, I love him to bits, please marry me. Viva Pinata is sort of back!

O jogo é bom e possui muito potencial porém precisa de muitas melhorias. Joguei antecipadamente então pode ser que lancem já com os bugs que presenciei corrigidos. Num geral: gostei. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZADyEmIFE8c

This is an adorable game in which you collect creatures! It's a chill game with lots of mindless tasks that can get you sucked in! Very satisfying and easy to understand. Great tutorial, too.

overall I like the game, but I find that there are several bugs and annoyances, firstly I have a couple areas that I've opened but there are no skylets appearing at the edges even though I have altered the ranch to suit them, secondly the fishing seems to do nothing, it has the animation and a number appears but otherwise nothing happens. I have also bought feeding troughs but I can't fill them, I tried finding out from others online who've played it but the advice they gave doesn't work, it just seems that the food won't go in and the skylets can't eat no matter how much food is around. with annoyances I'd say you're left a bit blind, like there's no direction on what to do or how to do it, i mean I've purchased the lift and the events area and the upper area which all look like they should do something but nothing happens. I wish there was more direction and advice, even if it was a case of 'you haven't unlocked this level yet' or 'you need xyz before you can proceed' it is a very cute and simple game which is why I backed it, but there needs to be a lot of patches for it. Also if the interaction of the skylets was faster that would be good too, or if you could just walk away once you've interacted